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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Well, they kept that quiet!
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Optikos <optikos@verizon.net> writes:

> Obviously I am not talking about bland mundane ••unoptimized naïve••
> Target Code being fed into as and ld with all value-adds turned off or
> inhibited in LLVM.  I am clearly referring to all the
> commonly-utilized actually-extant value-adds in the LLVM ecosystem
> that produce any kind of optimization or correctness-improving rewrite
> or any other value-add transform of the IR or of the IR-to-Target-Code
> generated that is then fed into as and ld, where as and ld are none
> the wiser that a prior stage improved the IR or the Target Code by
> rewriting it a little or a lot when compared to its
> bland/unoptimized/naïve/mundane starting point at an even earlier
> phase.  Your criticism is focusing (ridiculously) on the
> none-the-wiser part there at the input orifice of as and ld; I am
> focusing on the rewriting-it part there in that prior sentence
> immediately prior to feeding it into that orifice.

I was going to write something rude, but instead I'll just disengage.